Day 57 – Bellefonte, Pennsylvania

Travel day today, so short blog, no pics.  Funny thing happened on our walk this morning.  Don and I were looking at the fishing pond up the hill from our site, and Don was wondering where its water came from.  I had an idea about that, so I strolled around to the uphill side of the pond and invited him to follow me.  He was surprised to find what he called a “seep”, which he told me was a release of ground water along a wide area, like a real spread out spring.  He thanked me for pointing this out, but cautioned me not to get my paws too wet or muddy.  He quickly hiked out of the wet area, then turned to find me; I was involved in investigating the odor of a plant on the edge of the pond, and when he called me, I took off running toward him at a full gallop through the seep area.  He started laughing, and told me that I looked like a TV commercial with a wild stallion running through the surf, splashing water left and right.  I took it as a compliment.

We hauled out of our mountain top park around eleven, making our way cautiously down the hill and hooking up the truck once we got down.  We headed south on I-88 through Binghamton, where we picked up the I-81 to proceed further south to the I-80.  We made a stop at a Flying J in northern Pennsylvania for some fuel and propane; got the fuel, but the propane equipment, for some reason, wasn’t capable of filling our tank.  So, we carried on until reaching Bellefonte and the local KOA, whose propane station did a fine job of filling us up. 

Not much dinner excitement tonight, mostly soup; got some bowls to clean up, pretty good stuff.  Don’t know what’s happening tomorrow, nobody’s ready to commit.  I can see that there’s some desire to head for home, but also some to check out whatever might be interesting in the area.  Whatever happens, your faithful reporter will fill you in!  ‘Night, All!